Respect..

p style=”text-align:justify;”>To get respect from everyone I know is quite hard. Some people just don’t agree with my life, and they just try to demean it. True, I can’t keep everyone happy; I may not have got to a height that my qualifications might deserve, but I am some place on the way, and happy with where I am. The least they can do is accept that I have taken and am taking risks, and I am trying than shoot darts for every wrong step I take. It hurts more when one of them is my family, and that he demands respect without giving me any.

Written in the form, “Dorsimbra”, for One Single Impression, where the prompt at their 176th week is Respect, and also for Carry On Tuesday‘s 113th Week, where the prompt gives me part of my penultimate line.

To get respect, you must respect my life,
My roads are right, to me, from where I stand;
I may just fall, from the edge of this knife,
But I follow instincts, please understand.

I know you care, but to strangle dreams
Is it right? How can I fly with chains?
Let me breathe, so I can make you proud
Of who I am; don’t always find my wrongs

What you once were, I cannot mimic now
I maybe your blood, but not reflection
Father; little I ask, my wants are few
To get respect, you must respect my life

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Poetry & writing are to me, a breath of fresh air in a life that is sometimes covered by the smoke of sorrow or self doubt. They also become the sweets I share to celebrate when life offers me a reason to. But most of all, they are to me, my life. For each word I write is a piece of my heart, a thought that just had to find its way into the world.

I enjoy and can identify with it. Perhaps he doesnt see what you are and maybe his expectations doesnt align with yours. He still love you, thus his care and concern for what he thinks it’s good for you. Prove to him that you know he cares and you will show him, you know what you can and is able to do.

Ah, a bit sad Leo…
I hope I am not gonna be in same dilemma to my kids…
I mean, I encourage them and not otherwise
I inspire them to achieve their dreams in life
Whatever they may become, I will continue to inspire them!

Cheer up Leo, he may soon understand you.
Thing is, you are doing your best to become someone
they can be proud of soon…

They may understand you, but not this time, and that is
not quite easy. Pray they would show their support to you
inspire you to do better.

Don’t think they would feel that way about you. I’ve known you to be caring and loving and showing that also to all three of your kids! Don’t know when he will, but I do think and hope that he will, Amity.

Totally agree with you that in order to receive respect, you must give respect. That’s one thing that has bugged with the Indian culture where we are told to blindly respect you elders but it doesn’t matter that they don’t respect you because apparently, them being older means they don’t have to. Great work Vinay!

You know Leo… you have said it so well… RE SPECT.. you crave to see the person again because you feel enhanced in his or her presence.. I tried to make a list of such people… trust me Leo.. could not get more than a couple of names.. I am not putting blogsphere here.. we are all distant soul mates who perhaps spontaneously enhancing each other..

You said it so candidly and so well.. Respect..so hard to come by… yet everyone else demands it..unabashedly..

Thanks for everything LEO, for joining in my celebrations .. I wish to place on record that you were the one who taught me about HAIKUS… i remember it was on your advice that I reworked on my first HAIKU..

i honestly sat silent for a few minutes in front of my comp as i let each of your word sink in Leo. you express the truth each time in such a simple way that you force me to think. i could relate with this completely because sometimes i want to scream the same way too-“but to strangle dreams Is it right? How can I fly with chains? Let me breathe”
you brought a lump to my throat.
you know what? I respect you and your poems. whether you know it or not but you have taught me many many things.
you know in my notebook where i wrote my first haiku, the caption says-“inspired by Leo”. all my friends were laughing but again, i never expect respect from them 🙁
makes me feel sad, im surrounded by so many but still so lonely(especially at school)
sorry for the blabbering but as ever your words invoked something in me that i cant explain.

Oh don’t shout that too often 🙂 Your dreams aren’t that strangled I think. Besides, dreams aren’t time limited I feel. Just needs the right type of pampering 😀
Thanks, for the respect and praise always, Kirti 🙂 and for the caption too. Your haikus are just beginning to come out of their shell I feel.
Don’t feel lonely. Not everyone would understand poetry. Its okay. Be with them, and be with your words whenever else possible too 🙂
And no need apologies for anything. 😛 I have no problems with your “blabber” 😆

Ah, Harshadji, those are my thoughts exactly, maybe a little less direct than my own words. I’ve been through the soft tone, but it just irks me that it wasn’t heard. That’s all. Thank you for a wonderful comment.

Dear Harshadji, I do respect him. A lot actually. And that line, I didn’t mean to hurt him, or any other father. I’m not one to say it straight to the face usually. When I wrote it, it was just after something irked me because of something he did not understand of my life. Only momentary, and it does not stay more than that, because the love I hold for him and mom takes over. I wrote it in the straight up tone just to get it out of my system. Here is the only place I feel I can express somehow.

Thank you for enjoying my poems, and supporting me. My apologies for getting tears of sadness from you, than of joy. I hope not to do that again.

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